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Richard was again a little late.1 He said he had forgotten to look at the clock and then had run all the way. He was silent, looking frightened and unhappy.
Mrs K. interpreted that his forgetting about the time meant much the same as his wish to run away from the playroom the day before.
In the previous session she had interpreted to him his doubts of Mummy and herself (the ‘wicked brute’). Yesterday, on leaving the playroom, he had said that on the previous day she had left the window open and it should have been shut. This remark also expressed his grievance against the wicked brute-mother and Mrs K. They should not have left the window—standing for the genital—open, which allowed the brute-octopus, the bad father, to have sexual intercourse and to get inside.
Richard repeated that he could not possibly wish to attack and abuse Mrs K. and Mummy; it made him unhappy even to think that he could wish to do that. He began to draw (Drawing 14), speaking at the same time of the possibility of an invasion by Germany; he had thought of it this very morning. If the invasion began, would Mrs K. be able to see him? How would he get to ‘X’? He had been drawing the usual big starfish and then divided it into sections. He said Daddy was coming, made the black pencil march towards the drawing, at the same time humming a marching tune which was meant to be sinister,1 and he filled in some sections with black.2 Next the red pencil was moved quickly, and he accompanied this with a lively tune; as he was about to fill in the red sections, he announced, ‘This is me, and you will see what a large part of the empire I get.’ Then he coloured some sections light blue, and while doing so he looked up at Mrs K. and said, ‘I feel happy.’ (He